History Main / IKnewThereWasSomethingAboutYou

* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': This is Aisha's reaction when Adam's date turns out to be Scorpina.

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%% In the Imagine Spot, Kagami is hidden behind a frame, shown to the camera via silhouette, and her voice is distorted. I'm sure there are tropes for those, but haven't had luck finding them.

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* Used as in ''Film/{{Tron}}''. Ram suspects early on that there was something unusual about Flynn and even remarks on that fact to Tron. Later, when Ram [[spoiler: has been mortally injured]], he flat-out asks Flynn "Are you a User?". When Flynn confirms it, Ram dies with a smile, happy to not only be right in his suspicions, but knowing that the Users exist and one is there to help.
* In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', after seeing [[spoiler: Captain America wield his hammer Mjölnir]], Thor delivers an ecstatic ''"I knew it!"'', [[spoiler: having clearly suspected since ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' that Cap was indeed worthy to wield the hammer.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E18CrisisOnNaboo "Crisis on Naboo"]], Cad Bane says this when he finds out that Rako Hardeen was actually an undercover Obi-Wan Kenobi.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels:'' When Hondo finds out his new partner "Jabba the Hutt" is actually Ezra Bridger, he initially seems ''genuinely hurt'' that Ezra lied to him him, before switching tone to admiration.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E22MadeOfHonor "Made of Honor"]], [[spoiler:Bismuth]] is upset but feels vindicated after Steven fills her in on [[spoiler:Rose Quartz [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter actually being]] Pink Diamond]], as [[ThisExplainsSoMuch it explains a lot]] about her suspicions concerning [[spoiler:Rose's passive and merciful yet surprisingly successful battle strategy during the Crystal Gems' rebellion]].
* A BrickJoke from ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'': In the pilot, after Carmen flunked VILE's pickpocket test (to steal a dollar bill from Shadowsan's coat), she accused Shadowsan of rigging the test by not putting a dollar in his coat. This leads to an emotional exchange in the first season finale, "The French Connection Caper", when Shadowsan revealed that he had failed her because he wanted to save her from a life of crime:

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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E22MadeOfHonor "Made of Honor"]], [[spoiler:Bismuth]] is upset but feels vindicated after Steven fills her in on [[spoiler:Rose Quartz [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter actually being]] Pink Diamond]], as it explains a lot about her suspicions concerning [[spoiler:Rose's passive and merciful yet surprisingly successful battle strategy during the Crystal Gems' rebellion]].

* On the Crimson Flower route of VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses, if Byleth fights Catherine in the finale, she says that she'd always known they were trouble, and laments having done nothing back then. It's a bit of InsaneTrollLogic born of her BlindObedience to Rhea, plus five years passing since the TwoRoadsBeforeYou choice.

* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea'', Ariel's daughter tells her new fish friends that she's really a human. One of them responds with: "I knew there was something ''un''-fishy about you!"

* A BrickJoke from ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'': In the pilot, after Carmen flunked Shadowsan's pickpocket test (to steal a dollar bill from Shadowsan's coat), she accused Shadowsan of rigging the test by not putting a dollar in his coat. This leads to an emotional exchange in the first season finale, "The French Connection Caper":
-->'''Shadowsan''': I did not wish for you to succeed in crime school, because I could not bear the thought of you having to choose a path of evil.\\
'''Carmen''': You knew I'd never accept. And you knew what they would do to me when I said 'no'. You failed me because you were trying to protect me. And?\\
'''Shadowsan''': Yes, the coat was empty.\\

* The phrase ''"I knew there was something wrong with you"'' is spoken to WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} by the Emperor's advisor Chi-Fu, when he reveals her identity as a woman in front of her platoon.

* The phrase ''"I knew there was something wrong with you"'' is spoken to Disney/{{Mulan}} by the Emperor's advisor Chi-Fu, when he reveals her identity as a woman in front of her platoon.
* In Disney's ''Disney/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea'', Ariel's daughter tells her new fish friends that she's really a human. One of them responds with: "I knew there was something ''un''-fishy about you!"

When the fandom says this about a character, it's IKnewIt.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E22MadeOfHonor "Made of Honour"]], [[spoiler:Bismuth]] is upset but feels vindicated after Steven fills her in on [[spoiler:Rose Quartz [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter actually being]] Pink Diamond]], as it explains a lot about her suspicions concerning [[spoiler:Rose's passive and merciful yet surprisingly successful battle strategy during the Crystal Gems' rebellion]].

* Used as a TearJerker in ''Film/{{Tron}}''. Ram suspects early on that there was something unusual about Flynn and even remarks on that fact to Tron. Later, when Ram [[spoiler: has been mortally injured]], he flat-out asks Flynn "Are you a User?". When Flynn confirms it, Ram [[spoiler: [[GoOutWithASmile dies with a smile]]]], happy to not only be right in his suspicions, but knowing that the Users exist and one is there to help.

* Played for laughs in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja''. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p08/]]

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-->''' Sergeant James Doakes''': [about Dexter using drugs] I knew there was something wrong with you. The secrets, the sneaking around... Now it all makes sense. A lot of cops have been where you are. The booze, the drugs... makes the job go down easier. Stay clean and stay out of my way, we won't have a problem.

* ''Series/{{Bones}}'': Zach was a brilliant but vulnerable genius, who [[spoiler: goes absolutely crazy, crushing his friends]].
-->'''Cam''': "I knew the day I met that boy that he would cause me pain."
* ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'':
-->'''Alex Russo''': I knew there was something I liked about you, but this... this is genius. You are my new role model.
-->'''Stevie''': Please, Alex. I'm sure this is something you would have eventually come up with yourself.
-->'''Alex Russo''': Yeah, now that's true. I take it back; I'm my own role model again.

--> '''Aisha:''' I knew there was something I didn't like about you! I mean, besides your hair and your clothes.

-->'''Vezon''': Who are you, and why are you here?
-->'''Mazeka''': I'm here to kill you!
-->'''Vezon''': Oh. I knew there was something about you that I liked!

* When VideoGame/MaxPayne busts down the door to face Vinnie Gognitti, Gognitti tells him "I knew from day one there was something screwy about you!"
* In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', Carth is ''very'' openly stating he smells a rat in the whole setup with your PlayerCharacter. And just as he's getting over his trust issues, in comes TheReveal. His alternate lines almost quote the trope title.
* Pops up in a couple of the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' main series games, usually with a gym leader or one of the final bosses saying it to the player character.

-->'''Person 1''': I ''knew'' he was a ghost wizard.
-->'''Person 2''': [[FlatWhat What]] no you didn't.
-->'''Person 1''': I ''knew'' he was an evil agent of Dracula.
-->'''Person 3''': [[VisibleSilence ...]]
-->'''Person 1''': I ''knew'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking I didn't like him]].
-->'''Person 4''': He is so good to all of us. Stop it.

* In Disney's ''Disney/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea'', Ariel's daughter tells her new fish friends that she's really a human. One of them responds with: "I knew there was something ''un''-fishy about you!"
* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', the toys are trying to find out who took Woody when Buzz recognizes the thief as Al of Al's Toy Barn, who appears in his commericals as "The Chicken Man", which the other toys dislike. Hamm says "I knew there was something I didn't like about that chicken."
* The phrase ''"I knew there was something wrong with you"'' is spoken to Disney/{{Mulan}} by the Emperor's advisor Chi-Fu, when he reveals her identity as a woman in front of her platoon.